Traduce
Traduce , transitive verb
[Latin traducere, traductum, to lead across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: compare French traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, from Latin traducere. See Duke.]
1.
To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obsolete] — Glanvill
2.
To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obsolete] — Golden Boke
3.
To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obsolete]
From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth.
4.
To draw away; to seduce. [Obsolete]
I can forget the weakness
Of the traduced soldiers.
5.
To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obsolete] — Bacon
6.
To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
The best stratagem that Satan hath... is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt.
He had the baseness... to traduce me in libel.